Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Houses of the Oireachtas Commission - Review of Allowances
3:30 pm
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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Yes. I wish to discuss the components of that. We had a discussion with Mr. Watt which then became a theme of the meeting we had with representatives of the Department of Defence last week. Once one gets under the skin of what an allowance is, there are a variety of things under that phrase. I want to tease out what all these things mean. The table lists 27 different allowances. Of those 27 allowances, is it correct that the delegate allowance is going?